St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-17

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her daughter, and she asked him to
go away and find another place
to work. He seemed to take it all in
good part at first until his mother moved
into the neighhorhOOd and then he tried
to get Alice to leave home. Shortly
after this he had some words with Mr..
Waterman and he went to the house and
while enraged said TO Alice that he
would outrage her before the year
ended. One evening he entered her
room
BY MEANS OF A LADDER
on the outside and undertook to chlOrO-
form her, but was discovered and went
away. Alice then hoping to quiet Bel
lows, thinking that all trouble might be
avoided, left her mothers home by con-
sent of her parents and hired out as
servant in the family of Mr.. Wilcox.
Early on the morning of the Sth Of July
Bellows came around the rear of the
house and called for Alice, who was at
work in the kitchen, to come out as he
frightened Look and heSitated to go,
but finally went. The door. had
hardly closed behind her when
Mrs. Wilcox heard the report of re-
VOlver and scream. Rushing to the
door she threw it open, and looking
through the screen saw Alice on the
ground with her head partly raised from
it, fighting the assassin as best she
could, and at the same time pleading
piteOuSly and imploring the villain to
spare her life. Untouched by the tell
der voice, he deliberately placed the
muZZle against her breast and sent an
unerring bullet crushing through her
breast. With this prayer for mercy on
her lips she died. Mrs. Wilcox rushed
her little children into the front bed
room, boiling the doors behind her, and
called TO her husband, who was making
hay near the house, for help. lie mad
heard the reports of the revolver, and at
his Wife'S call started for the house.
When he came near he saw Bellows
standing over bis PROSTATE victim. The
murderer, hearing him, turned and with
a quick motion
FIRED TIE REVOLVER
and then threw it at Wilcox head. Mr..
Wilcox thought that the fire was in
tended for him and struck the fellow
over the head with the handle of his
fork, bringing him to his knees. He
cried out: Don't hit me again: I'm
shot" and opened his vest, showing the
flood flowing from a wound in the side.
Wilcox threw him into wagon and
took him to Charles City and lodged
him in jail. An indignant and an out
ragged people rose up to avenge the
crime. and for time it looked as if
Chester Bellows was to be lynched. but
to the credit of the people the law was
allowed to take its course. Medical as
sistance was called and the bullet was
probe,i for and found beneath the skin
i'll the back. He slowly recovered from
his wound and was tried at the NOYem-
her term of court, Judge Ruddiek, of
Waverly, presiding. Against the advice
of his counsel he brought the plea of
insanity. His actions before the court
beggar description. The trial was long
and tedious. but the jurors, after the case
was given to them, were not long in
reaching the verdict, fixing the punish
ment at death. When he was brought
into the court room and the verdict read
in his presence smile was upon his
face. evidently not assumed, for he said
that the sentence was relief to him, as
he preferred death to life Imprisonment.
The judge proceeded TO read the death
sentence in a voice broken at times with
emotion. Throughout the entire read
ing Bellows sat uncOncerned in his seat.
looking around the room, accepting the
doom with smile and showing such
utter lack of feeling as to lose all SYM
pathy he might have had. a motion
was made for new trial, but was
promptly OYeTruled.